Annette Messager, She uses her own photographs in order to create a sculpture. During the 1970s her work drew upon everyday life, taking such subjects as toys and needlework. She usually used a range of closely related found– objects, as well as creating performance pieces. In her work she questioned accepted perceptions of women. Her work has helped inspire one of my project pieces as she does not only take pictures, she makes something out of them which allows every day pieces to become one large, eye capturing sculpture. |
Henry Wessel. He is a personal favourite of mine as his photographs truly helped inspire mine. His work uses lighting in every form in order to make every day objects and actions into art. When looking at his work, frames within frames comes into mind along with film noir as his work looks like it belongs under that category of photography. His work is often displayed so that it in two frames so that the displaying of his work, mimics it |
Film noir. These movies were originally stylish Hollywood crime dramas, mainly those that emphasize cynical attitudes. All these movies use lighting as a way to portray parts of their story, just like all these stills do. Each use lighting as a way to create shadows onto the subjects in the shot, for example the silhouettes made the subject stand out drastically. The other two have lights of shadow going across the subject in order to submerge some of them in darkness. This use of lighting I have used in my own photography as its believed to drag the viewers eyes across the still the way the photographer wants it to. |
Alfred Hitchcock, 'The master of suspense. His movies were focused around suspense and creating a truly great thriller film filled with suspense. These stills create great suspense but are done at such an angle that the viewer can only see part of the story. The still of the woman has the light focused on her face in order to made the viewers eyes do the same. Once the viewer realises that there is a man behind her, they also realise what is happening in the movie. Hitchcock does this in many movies in order to create suspense for the audiences. |